Patent GB-191410786-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Ticket Issuing Machines.
Inventor: HADDAN REGINALD
Filed: 1914-05-01
Granted: 1915-04-29
Abstract: 10,786. Haddan, R., [National Cash Register Co.]. May 1. Index type-case machines with printing- surfaces f o r tickets; hammer-impression arrangements; web feeding a n d cutting arrangements; electric driving- mechanism.-Relates to ticket printing and issuing machines that print destination, c l a s s of fare, serial number, and date, recording certain of these particulars, as well as the grand serial number, upon a recordstrip, and registering the total values. There is also provision for severing the ticket, and printing additional data. To each destination is assigned one of a series of members arranged in horizontal rows, a n d each destination member is adapted to print the station name, the serial number of such tickets, and the class, for the last-mentioned purpose it is three-sided and adjustable, the ticket paper, record-strip, totalizer, and all the remaining parts being movable by and with a selecting-lever so as to bring them into co-operation with the proper destination member, whereupon the movement of a starting-handle upon the lever energizes an electromotor to depress the destination member and effect the impression, registration, and issuing. A few of the destination members 5 are shown in side elevation in Fig. 2, and each has an upper name-plate 7 over the central point of which is brought the depressible point of an arm 42 forming part of a frame 43 movable to select any destination member, and carrying beneath such members, so as to cooperate with that one selected, the ticket-paper 158, record-strip 150, and associated common parts. The frame 42, 43 is rotated about a tubular shaft 45 to select the desired row of destination members, parallel link-work 49 maintaining the printing &c. frame 48 parallel to the framework of the tubular shaft, which is itself movable in guides so as to position the whole mechanism over the desired destination member. A lever 77 is then depressed, whereupon an operating point is forced against the upper plate of the member, and through linkwork 79, 81, 84, Fig. 20, a contact 91 in the operating - motor circuit is completed and a detent 88 removed from the path of an arm 89 upon the motor-shaft, which thereupon rotates, driving the shaft of the feeding and cutting- off mechanism, and, after an interval determined by a mutilated gear-wheel 59, a shaft 64 that completes depression of the destination member, to print and register, and also opens the motor circuit through the agency of the camming-parts 95, 96. Fig. 7 shows the mechanism communicating movement to the pinions 107, 108 upon the two pairs of feedrollers for the ticket-strip 111 supplied from the roll 112, one of the rollers having adjustable date-printing types and also an electrotype for printing the name of the issuing-station, and other rollers carrying an additional electrotype for fixed matter and also a consecutivenumbering device for printing the grand total of tickets issued by the machine. After this impression, the ticket passes on to a platen 127 for the purpose of receiving the impression from the selected destination member. The feed-roller driving-shaft subsequently lifts, by means of a roller 145 and cam plate 146, Fig. 14, a rod 147 so as to rock a pivoted cutting-off blade 125 co-operating with a fixed blade 127 to sever the ticket strip. The impression upon the recordstrip 150, which passes beneath the second pair of feed-rollers and beneath the ticket-strip, is obtained by means of an ink-ribbon 155 passing from a supply-roll 156 to a take-up roll 158 through both pairs of feed-rollers and between the ticket and record strips. A hand-stamp 225 is provided for impressing the machine number upon the record strip, Fig. 21, after it is removed for checking purposes. Case-shift mechanism. - Each stamp is horizontally pivoted and is triangular in section, the three faces bearing type for full, half, and return fares for the particular destination, and this adjustment is made by means of a handlever with locking-device operating, through racks and pinions, the spindles of the pivoted stamps, of which the ends are provided with hexagonal nuts adapted to slide between ribs upon a depending flange of one of the racks when the particular destination member is depressed to print and register. Roller inking-arrangements.-Linkwork 131, 132, 133, Fig. 7, operated from the feed-roller driving-shaft 103 reciprocates an ink-roller 134 over an ink-disk 135 and beneath the partlydepressed destination member where it is held temporarily by slots in a bracket 143. Provision is also made for rotating the inking-disk automatically.